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...friends call him, does not look or sound like a southern civil rights leader. At Harvard last month he wore a conservative dark suit and a belted khaki raincoat which might have come from Brooks Brothers. When he speaks his voice is deep and grave with no trace of southern accent...
...moved under its own power with its nose wheel locked to a 4,000-ft. rail, reached greater speed than expected, careened far past the anticipated wreck site. The fire, too, was not anticipated, since the DC-7's main fuel tanks were filled with colored water to trace the post-crash distribution of inflammable fuel. An auxiliary tank carried only enough fuel for the short test run but resulted in the fire, which was quickly doused...
...evolved into Homo habilis and at least two other different types, notably Australopithecus and erectus, a near man that includes both Java and Peking man. From Homo habilis, Leakey believes, are descended both Neanderthal man (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens). His theory, if correct, would trace man's ancestry back to the Pliocene Age, roughly 1,850,000 years ago and more than 1,000,000 years before Java man, commonly considered modern man's earliest known forebear...
...despite its lack of identifying insignia. Groups of children on their way to school turned to stare at it and point. The driver of a Volkswagen raised his fingers in a V-for-victory sign. As the car picked up speed and headed south ward toward Detroit, a flickering trace of satisfaction crossed its driver's impassive, hawklike face...
...course," I promised. "There will be no trace of what the poor child suffered to be seen...